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ADMT 3.1 Released

Hi everyone, David here. I just wanted to spread the word that ADMT 3.1 is now available for download. Like all previous versions of ADMT, it’s free to install and use.

The big change in this version of the Active Directory Migration Tool is support for migration using Windows Server 2008 domain controllers.

Also included with this are new versions of the Password Export Service (for 32-bit and 64-bit DCs), and an updated migration guide, which we highly recommend for anyone planning to do a migration.

As always, if you’re planning on doing a migration project, we recommend testing carefully before doing anything with production computers and users.

- David Beach

Posted: Thursday, July 10, 2008 2:28 PM by NedPyle
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Matt Johnson's Technical Adventures said:

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# July 16, 2008 9:41 AM

Mickelodeon said:

I would like to know if you can help me. I want to apply ADMT 3.1 for migrate windows users, computers, etc.

But I'm having troubles with the profile migration, do you have some papers.

Regards

Mickeloden

# September 30, 2008 4:39 PM

NedPyle said:

Hi,

Have you already read through the migration guide?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=45&p=1&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=ae279d01-7dca-413c-a9d2-b42dfb746059&u=details.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d6D710919-1BA5-41CA-B2F3-C11BCB4857AF%26displaylang%3den

If that's not helpful, feel free to post your question here with some specifics and we'll take a swing at it. If it's going to be a huge effort (with data collection and network traces and whatnot), you might instead want to open a support case with us.

- Ned

# September 30, 2008 5:36 PM

pcantoni said:

Hi everybody.

I didn't find documentation about ADMT and DFS migration.

SCENARIO:

W2000 AD Domain (only W2000 DCs);

3 DC are the DFS Root target too;

DFS target are W2003R2 only File Server;

replica of the DFS root target is through DFS-R.

ISSUE:

I need to migrate this domain to a brand new W2008 based forest.

Some advice about DFS service migration?

Thanks!

-Pier

# January 28, 2009 11:04 AM

NedPyle said:

ADMT does not migrate DFS. However, this blog post from us covers your migration scenario:

Migrating your DFS Namespaces in three (sorta) easy steps - http://blogs.technet.com/askds/archive/2008/01/15/migrating-your-dfs-namespaces-in-three-sorta-easy-steps.aspx

# January 28, 2009 11:14 AM

pcantoni said:

Hi everybody,

again in the former scenario.

What about WSUS?

Is it raccomeded to reinstall from scratch in the new domain or is tehere a procedure in order to migrate WSUS from yhe old AD domain?

Regards.

-Pier

# January 29, 2009 8:04 AM

NedPyle said:

Hi,

I asked our WSUS team and they provided the following info. Please direct all further questions about WSUS to their blog, which is: http://blogs.technet.com/sus

From those helpful guys:

"You can use WSUSMigrate from the API Samples and Tools to export approvals and import those into the new server.

a.) Download the WSUS3 version of the tool from here:

_http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/d/c/5dc98401-bb01-44e7-8533-3e79ae0e0f97/Update%20Services%203.0%20API%20Samples%20and%20Tools.EXE

b.) follow the WSUSMigrate readme located in program files\Update Services 3.0 API Samples and Tools\WsusMigrate. PLEASE use the recompiled version of wsusmigrationimport from here as there was a bug in the original version.  Please see the following for more info on that bug:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;945348

You can obtain the updated tool from here:

http://www.codeplex.com/WSUS/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=18460"

- Ned

# January 29, 2009 9:59 AM

Chris900 said:

I need to migrate users from 2003 AD domain to 2000 AD domain. The source domain has 4 standalone DFS roots with 1000’s of shares and permissions.

If I migrate all user accounts, groups, computer account to 2000 AD domain, and add all clinet systems and servers to the 2000 domain, I believe all migrated users [with SID history] should be able to access the DFS shares without any issue. Do I need to do anything else for DFS.

# July 5, 2009 4:18 AM
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